Margaret Atwood's Sunshine Sketches Of A Little Town

Folk humour and satire were the replies due to the domination of the Catholic church of 19th-century French Canadian culture. A light comedy that ridiculed local traditions was typical of 19th-century theatre in Quebec. By the early 20th century, the sardonic practice was well developed in English Canada as demonstrated in the writings of Stephen Leacock. In his work Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town which was published in 1912, made Leacock legendary for his satirical wit, he used tragic irony and shrewd approaching to examine day-to-day, small town life. This book remains a classic of Canadian literature. A yearly Canadian literary award, which is the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour, is named after his memory. The award is offered …show more content…
She was graduated in 1961 from Victoria College, University of Toronto. She was granted the Master degree in English and the next year started working on her Ph.D. She took up market research and at the same time started working on her first novel which was unpublished. During 1963-65, Atwood taught literature and composition at the University of British Columbia. In 1965, she received President’s Award followed by the Governor General’s Award next year for her anthology of poems, The Circle Geune. Her collection of poems, The Animals in That Country won the first prize at the Centennial Commission Poetry Competition in 1967 and in 1969; she received the Union Poetry prize. Margaret Atwood taught Victorian Literature and American Literature at Sir George Williams University in Montreal during 1967-1968. For the next two years, she taught at the University of Alberta. It was in 1967 that she married James Polk whom she met at Harvard in 1963. The Edible Woman appeared in 1969, for which she was awarded the Union Poetry Prize. The Journals of Susanna Moodie and Procedures for Underground were published in 1970, which was tag a longer by Power Politics the next year. James Polk and she were divorced in 1973, and Margaret Atwood moved to Allison, Ontario, with Graeme Gibson, whom she met in 1970. The same year, she was granted a D.Litt. by the Trent …show more content…
Dancing Girls was published in 1977. It was followed by Lady Oracle award gaining the city of Toronto Book Award as well as the Canadian Booksellers Association Award. Two-Headed Poems and Up in the Tree appeared in 1978. Margaret Atwood received the St. Lawrence Award for Fiction the same year. In 1980, Margaret Atwood was awarded the Radcliffe Gold Medal and a D.Litt. from Concordia